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In the newfound arena of social media as activism, few hashtags have generated as much buzz as "IfTheyGunnedMeDown," which has been circulating around Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Still, the trending hashtag was several hours old before Alexis Nwaiwu, a 19-year-old sophomore at Georgia State University, decided to post. It wasn't necessarily Michael Brown's photo that inspired her. Rather, it was a news image of Brown whose shooting by Ferguson, Mo., police has caused riots juxtaposed with that of James Holmes, the Colorado theater shooter, that enraged her. Someone posted the photo of Brown in his red Nike tank top flashing a peace sign. The headline, taken from a...

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